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Meanwhile, the Carter Administration was caught in a shouting match with Cuba over Havana's involvement in the Shaba affair. Two weeks ago, the President accused Cuba of responsibility for training and arming the Katangese rebels based in Angola, although not of participating in the invasion. At the United Nations last week, Cuban Vice President Carlos Rafael Rodriguez called the charge "absolutely false" and said it was "based on impudently repeated lies." Said Rodriguez flatly: "I can reaffirm that Cuba has not participated directly or indirectly in the events in Shaba ... Not only were there no Cubans present in that...
...past two decades. Naturally, a two-paycheck family faces more complications in moving, especially if one spouse's raise might be offset by the other taking a cut. When an electronics executive was asked to shift from Boston to Maine, his wife, a nurse, could find nothing to match her present job. Their decision: to remain in Boston. Having diligently worked up to assistant vice president at Bank of America's home office in San Francisco, Richard Easley, 33, was offered a reward: the No. 2 spot in a big Bank of America branch in San Mateo, only 20 miles...
These strains have bred North-South tensions that easily match in bitterness the East-West ideological clashes. At conference after conference, LDCs have demanded a "new international economic order" involving vaguely defined transfers of wealth from North to South. Sometimes these demands have focused on acceptance of cartels that would jack up the prices of raw materials, sometimes on insistence that rich countries give preferential tariff treatment to products from LDCs. Poor-country spokesmen have accused multinational companies of ripping off their resources and proclaimed a right to nationalize them, while contending that multinationals have some kind of obligation...
...Washington on the shuttle to talk to Congressmen and bureaucrats, and when important legislation is being debated, staff members may spend days there. The primary function of Brewer's office is to provide information to overworked staffers. Harvard can develop expertise on specific issues that staffers can not match, whether they are in Congress or the bureaucracy. An aide on the House Sub-committee on Science and Technology confirms Brewer's analysis. Harvard, he says, provides information on certain issues as often as it lobbies for a position on those issues. Other Congressional staffers, however, have experienced intensive...
They're damand lucky to even match what we did last year. They, did a great job," he said, adding that he was speaking more as a member of the Class of '52, which held the previous 25th reunion gift record, than as a Harvard official